Quotes About Integrity

At that moment I would have undertaken a mission to make Robert break with his mistress as readily as I had been to make him go and live with her permanently a few hours earlier. In the one case, Saint-Loup would have regarded me as a false friend; in the other, his family would have called me his evil genius. Yet, in that interval of a few hours, I was the same man.

There was only one thing she would not do for me, a thing she would have done only at the time when I would have cared nothing for it, and which she would have happily done then for that very reason: that is, tell me the truth.

When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

It is true that this person is to blame for having lied to us, for she had sworn to us that she would always tell us the truth. But we know from our own shortcomings, towards other people, how little an oath is worth.

I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass. It was the unalterable facts of duty, love, and conscience. But our world had gone so far north that the compass could make no sense of it, could only spin hopelessly in it binnacle. North had melted right off the map.

How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity

What dangers that word entails. How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity, without permanently losing self-respect?

It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head.

one here can tell me anything." Eric put his hands in his pockets, then looked away. "What? What?

paying any unnecessary

Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

There is most joy in virtue when 'tis hardest won.

ìNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Be thou erect, or be made erect.

He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.

Waste no time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

You can commit injustice by doing nothing.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.